cosmotic

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by cosmotic 4y ago
I understand that; the problem is that it makes it so easy to bypass the safety net the warning is intended to provide. For example, not logging an exception; You'd have to be really intentional to block the warning with an actual anno
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by cosmotic 4y ago
I find it exceptionally rare to want not to use a variable that way, it's usually something you want to make harder to ignore, not easier. In the case you really do want to ignore, there are annotations to prevent the warning.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
My $0.02: Unnamed variables just seem to add confusion and inconsistency. Inconsistency like this in Scala and Perl make it harder to learn and offer little value.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
> The data we have so far Very little of this sounds definitively positive. Are more clicks better? Why? Are more searches better? Why? Is not opting out evidence people prefer it? Maybe they didn't know how to opt out or 'want
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Life is generally better for everyone, even the people with 5 homes, each costing tens of millions.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Can you clarify 'hugely important'? The cited article seems to be saying 'don't make bad design choices or sacrifice usability or accessibility in the name of (bad) design'. I don't see it saying anything about
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by cosmotic 4y ago
"We", "noticed"
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by cosmotic 4y ago
The bank chose to make risky investments with the deposits it held. That's on the bank, not the fed.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
How can you blame the fed for the bank not having funds to cover the deposits?
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by cosmotic 4y ago
It might just be as simple as a defensive/precautionary maneuver to convert a slam dunk case into a triviality that could be decided in a default judgment. If you can get there blessing even if you don't need it, it's that mu
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Weird; I see the former symbol all day every day and have no trouble recalling. I see the second symbol almost never, maybe once a month, definitely not as easy to recall.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
It's not cacheless. There are countless caches throughout (including what appears to be ~1TB of memory in the database server), just not a dedicated cache machine.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
As long as your application is not commercial.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Link: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/311...
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by cosmotic 4y ago
> long road But how long? Longer than 300 miles?
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by cosmotic 4y ago
When you say you tried soylent before, was it the powder or the liquid? The two are quite different.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
I think the author is pointing out that, even if the error message is useless, it should not try to be funny. The funny bit is upsetting in these stressful situations.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
I can remember that the inequality symbol means != but I'd prefer the lower cognitive load of not having to recall anything at all. I like that Typing "!=" results in "!=" being printed to the screen. I like that pr
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by cosmotic 4y ago
The last thing I want is for my text to look interesting. I want it to be boring and instantly recognizable. I want text editors showing it to work predictably. Two characters should show as two glyphs with the background showing through th
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by cosmotic 4y ago
As someone that uses Edge by default, I see Google doing the same thing with Chrome. Various Google properties complain I'm not using Chrome. When I open chrome, it asks about being default... I never see Edge interfering. I switched t
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by cosmotic 4y ago
I traded a galaxy S3 + 3 year agreement in for a free S22; can you do that with an iPhone? Seems like we are comparing a free phone to a many hundreds of dollars phone.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Just because they are aware doesn't mean they aren't susceptible.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
If the CEOs are just doing what the board asks, why are they getting paid so much?
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by cosmotic 4y ago
My preference is easier to read and edit. Readability and editability come with consistency, and that's science. Ligatures break the consistency.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
I'm confused too. The comment was about ligatures in computer code, but did not itself contain computer code.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Preferring it is personal preference. It being good or better is science. People prefer dark theme even though it's objectively harder to read because of the reduced contrast ratio, among other reasons.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Vertical columns of background have, until ligatures, been a bullet proof means for brains to delineate characters. Is it possible to figure out with an increased cognitive load? Yes. Is it exactly as easy as without? No.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Ligatures make code harder to read and harder to edit. It's not just personal preference, it's the science of usability. When I press backspace or cursor keys, I expect one glyph to be erased, not who-knows-how-many (half?!). Auth
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by cosmotic 4y ago
Biggest problem I had with a largish Python codebase was code navigation and knowing the structure of the data going into and out of methods/functions. I had to attach debuggers just to see what was going on more often than I think sho
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by cosmotic 4y ago
And if you think Eclipse tooling is great, wait till you try IntelliJ!

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